GEORGE GALLUP, JR.: My dad did some polling in my grandmother's race for Secretary of State [of Iowa] in 1932. My grandfather had run for the governorship four years earlier, in the mid-1920s ...

Although 61% of Americans surveyed in the new Gallup poll say they’re generally dissatisfied with how democracy is working in the US, this year 34% said they felt satisfied — up from 28% last ...